R: Random Generation from a Truncated Normal Distribution

rtnorm {MCMCglmm} | R Documentation

## Random Generation from a Truncated Normal Distribution

### Description

Samples from the Truncated Normal Distribution

### Usage

    rtnorm(n = 1, mean = 0, sd = 1, lower = -Inf, upper = Inf)

### Arguments

`n` | integer: number of samples to be drawn
`mean` | vector of means
`sd` | vector of standard deviations
`lower` | left truncation point
`upper` | right truncation point

### Value

vector

### Author(s)

Jarrod Hadfield j.hadfield@ed.ac.uk

### References

Robert, C.P. (1995) Statistics & Computing 5 121-125

### See Also

`rtnorm`

### Examples

    hist(rtnorm(100, lower=-1, upper=1))

[Package MCMCglmm version 2.30 Index]